Ediacara (other)
Ediacara may refer to: Places *Ediacara, South Australia, a locality in South Australia * Ediacara Hills, a range of hills in the northern Flinders Ranges , South Australia * Nilpena Ediacara National Park, formerly Ediacara Conservation Park, South Australia Other * ''Ediacaria'', discoidal fossil animal once thought to be a jellyfish * The Ediacaran geological time period, named after the Ediacara Hills * The Ediacaran biota The Ediacaran (; formerly Vendian) biota is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic period classification that consists of all life forms that were present on Earth during the Ediacaran Period (). These were composed of enigmatic tubular and frond-sh ...

Ediacara, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Ediacara is a locality in the state of South Australia, located about north of the state capital of Adelaide and about to the south west of the town of Leigh Creek. It includes the Nilpena Ediacara National Park, and the Ediacara Hills, which lie within that park. History The area has a history of mining, first reported in 1888. An area became known as the Ediacara Mines after more costeans were dug. Attempts to mine the area were carried out as recently as 1967 by C.R.A. Exploration, which used diamond drilling to explore the ground, but this was abandoned after they proved fruitless. As of 2012, the area was still able to be accessed for "licensed mineral exploration or mining activities". The locality was established on 26 April 2013 in respect to "the long established local name". Its name is derived from the use of "Ediacara" in the names of features such as Ediacara Range. Location and description The locality of Ediacara is located about north of the ...
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Ediacara Hills
Ediacara Hills are a range of low hills in the northern part of the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, around north of the state capital of Adelaide. The hills are known for being the location of significant fossils, and have given their name to the geological period known as the Ediacaran. Description The area has many old copper and silver mines from mining activity during the late 19th century. The hills also contain fossils of early multicellular life forms, the Ediacaran biota (lagerstätte), and have given their name to the Ediacaran. There are two separate fossil sites within the region which have heritage protection: The Ediacara Fossil Site – Nilpena is listed on the Australian National Heritage List, while the Ediacara Fossil Reserve Palaeontological Site which is located to its north is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. There is a settlement named Ediacara in the Ediacara Hills region, but it is small. Due to the placement of the hills with ...
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Nilpena Ediacara National Park
__NOTOC__ Nilpena Ediacara National Park, comprising the former Ediacara Conservation Park and an additional , is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia about south west of the town of Leigh Creek in the state's Far North, around north of the city of Adelaide. The national park was proclaimed in June 2021. History Conservation park The Ediacara Conservation Park was proclaimed under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972'' on 26 April 2007 over land previously declared as a conservation reserve under the ''Crown Lands Act 1929'' in 1993 and as a fossil reserve in 1958. National park On 28 March 2019, the Government of South Australia purchased of adjacent land, to enlarge the conservation park by ten times. The land, formerly owned by the Nilpena Pastoral Company, extends as far as Lake Torrens National Park. The entire area was reclassified and proclaimed as Nilpena Ediacara National Park on 17 June 2021. A visitor hub and Ediacara Fossil ...
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Ediacaria
''Ediacaria'' is a fossil genus dating to the Ediacaran Period of the Neoproterozoic Era. Unlike most Ediacaran biota, which disappeared almost entirely from the fossil record at the end of the Period, ''Ediacaria'' fossils have been found dating from the Baikalian age (850–650 Ma) of the Upper Riphean to 501 million years ago, well into the Cambrian Period. ''Ediacaria'' consists of concentric rough circles, radial lines between the circles and a central dome, with a diameter from 1 to 70 cm. Systematics and taxonomy ''Ediacaria'' was named by Reg Sprigg in 1947, after the Ediacara Hills in South Australia. Two species are recognised: ''E. flindersi'', described by Sprigg from the Pound Quartzite in the Ediacara Hills, and ''E. booleyi'', described in 1995 from a Late Cambrian deposit at Booley Bay ( County Wexford), Ireland. The species were named after the Flinders Ranges and Booley Bay, respectively. ''Ediacaria'' is possibly a synonym for '' Aspidella terr ...
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Ediacaran
The Ediacaran Period ( ) is a geological period that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period 635 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Cambrian Period 538.8 Mya. It marks the end of the Proterozoic Eon, and the beginning of the Phanerozoic Eon. It is named after the Ediacara Hills of South Australia. The Ediacaran Period's status as an official geological period was ratified in 2004 by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), making it the first new geological period declared in 120 years. Although the period takes its name from the Ediacara Hills where geologist Reg Sprigg first discovered fossils of the eponymous Ediacaran biota in 1946, the type section is located in the bed of the Enorama Creek within Brachina Gorge in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, at . The Ediacaran marks the first appearance of widespread multicellular fauna following the end of Snowball Earth glaciation events, the so-called Ediacaran biota, ...
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